Word: reactors
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Suddenly, Russian space technology is looking better. In fact, even before last week's White House order, some small-scale cooperative projects were in the works. The Americans decided last year to purchase a Russian Topaz space- based nuclear reactor, admitting that the Russians' design was superior to anything in the U.S. A Soyuz space capsule is on the potential shopping list as well, to be used as a kind of lifeboat to get astronauts away from a failing space station. Later this year Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who was stranded in space for months by political maneuverings during...
...OFFICIALS HASTENED TO SAY, ANOTHER Chernobyl. But radiation leaks from an exploding uranium tank at the Tomsk-7 chemical plant in western Siberia did constitute the most serious nuclear accident since the 1986 Ukrainian reactor fire that spewed deadly radiation over Russia, Belarus and much of Western Europe, killing hundreds. Minor pollution and no casualties were reported at Tomsk-7, which lies 1,800 miles east of Moscow and produced, until recently, lethal plutonium for nuclear weapons. Environmental groups, which claim that the Tomsk incident was more serious than reported and blame it on slack safety standards, are calling...
...like that. "It" can't be turned on and off like a light switch. "It" is more like a nuclear reactor--a long buildup to full power and a longer slide to shutdown. Anything goes wrong, and it's bad news...
This energy costs environmentally: Generating electricity involves burning fossil fuels or running a nuclear reactor or hydroelectric plant. These processes can result in many forms of pollution: acid mine drainage, oil spills, natural gas leakage, toxic waste and air pollutants. Energy efficient lighting can decrease the amount of energy needed to meet lighting electricity demand by more than 50 percent...
...bilateral funding, and will make small initial contributions. Though the fund is eventually supposed to total $700 million, it will start with $75 million, all but $14 million put up by Germany and France -- the G-7 nations most likely to breathe fallout borne by the winds from a reactor accident in Eastern Europe. One problem: what to do with 19 Chernobyl-style reactors that cannot be made safe and should be shut down altogether -- which would deprive their surrounding areas of needed electricity...